V1.1.1
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- Fixed highlighting of Markdown's single-line codes with multiple backquotes.
Also, faster syntax highlighting for Markdown.
- Prevented a rare hang-like behavior with malformed XML documents that have
huge lines. Also, followed stricter rules for highlighting of "<" in XML.
- Workaround for wrong positions of instant tab tooltips with Qt6.
● A problem is fixed in saving with UTF-16.
● A very rare stack overflow is prevented when matching brackets in huge files.
● The maximum number of recent files is increased to 50.
● Added Tcl syntax highlighting.
● Lots of keywords are added to syntax highlighting for various programming
languages.
● Fixes and improvements to XML and Lua syntax highlighting.
● Enabled experimental compilation against Qt6 (→ INSTALL). The default cmake
compilation is still against Qt5.
-Fixed the detection of UTF-16 in special cases.
-Fixed tab detaching when the window is closed with its last tab.
-Don't try to restore window position under Wayland.
-Better inertial scrolling with touchpad and sensitive devices.
Main changes:
- Miscellaneous fixes to syntax highlighting of some programming languages.
- Go is added to syntax highlighting.
- Final symlink targets are also checked for detecting programming languages.
- An option is added for disabling menu-bar accelerators.
- Number separators are used on the status-bar.
- AppStream metadata is added by City-busz.
- Support for OS/2 is added by josch1710.
-Fixed an old but rare problem in highlighting of multiline comments.
-Added Pascal syntax highlighting.
-Added Java syntax highlighting.
-Better highlighting of numeric literals in some programming languages.
-Taken into account some general variables of Perl when highlighting its syntax.
-Taken into account the possibility of using unpaired or different paired
delimiters for the second part of Perl's replacement operators.
-Fixes and improvements to Ruby syntax highlighting.
-Prevent Qt from giving any non-plain text to the selection clipboard.
-Made PageUp/PageDown select the first/last item of the search history when the
search line-edit is focused.
-Fixed the lack of Perl-style comments in PHP syntax highlighting.
-If needed, save cursor positions when the app is terminated by SIGTERM.
-Prevent the spell checker from changing an uneditable document.
-Added an icon to the tabs/view-items of files that have targets but aren't
symlinks (e.g., their parent directories are symlinks). Also, (1) when a final
target exists, two items are added to the tab/view-item context menu for
copying its path and opening it, and (2) if a file and some of its targets are
opened, only the first one is editable by default.
-Added JSON syntax highlighting.
-Added "math" and "equation" to LaTex syntax highlighting.
V0.17.1
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* Removed the code for making the cursor busy after 1 second — cursor
overriding isn't marked as thread-safe by Qt.
V0.17.0
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* Consider the locale when showing line numbers and omit the group separator.
* Disable "Save with Encoding" with uneditable files.
* Fixed restoring of the current side-pane item after another item is closed
by middle-clicking.
* Fixed a problem in closing side-pane items with filtering.
* Workarounds for Qt bugs in keyboard navigation inside a list view when some
items are hidden.
* Made the warning bar more flexible by giving it a timeout, which can be 0 for
permanent bars.
* Allow saving as root without a root instance when the user doesn't have the
permission to write. Polkit's pkexec is used for gaining the root privileges.
* Distinguish Wayland from the lack of X11.
* Guarantee that the session dialog has focus after opening a session.
* Prevent killTimer() error warnings.
* Added LaTex to the recognized syntaxes.
* Workarounds for bugs in Qt's default printing. Qt can't handle dark color
schemes and the reverse order with printing. Now, FeatherPad supports both.
* Do printing in a separate thread, so that, if it takes a long time,
FeatherPad could still be used.
* Added simple support for gvfs' admin.
* Several fixes to Perl syntax highlighting.
0.16.0
Changes:
- A right-click item is added to tab/side-pane for opening containing folder.
- Natural sorting of items in the side-pane and session dialog.
- The warning bar disappears when clicked or, automatically, after 10 seconds.
- "To Start Case" is added to the case changing actions.
- The 50-ms delay of format updating is removed because Qt's update requests seem appropriate now.
- Focus the editor's view with the Escape key.
- Current line highlight is made customizable.
- The recent files feature can be disabled by setting its number to zero.
- Added a "standalone" option to the command-line. It's especially useful when FeatherPad is chosen as the "git" editor.
- Fixes and improvements here and there.
V0.15.0
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* Added optional selection highlighting (without interfering with search
highlighting).
* Fixed a small bug in search highlighting with tab DND/detachment.
* Added simple Haxe highlighting (by using JS codes).
* Fixed multiline "</>" in JS.
* Disabled the RTL workaround when lines aren't wrapped.
* Don't clear replacement highlights when the window is minimized.
* Always truncate absurdly huge lines in uneditable documents.
* Fixed a problem in the state of the language button after toggling syntax
highlighting.
* Fixed a rare case, where the text's format and highlight weren't updated.
The fix also simplifies the code.
* Highlight only the first 1000 replacements if there are more.
* Added an item (to the Edit menu as well as the context menu) for converting
all text tabs to spaces.
* Added an option to paste file paths instead of files (by default, FeatherPad
opens pasted files).
V0.14.2
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* Overrode Qt's default behavior with the Home key.
* Fixed a bug that allowed cutting of read-only texts.
* Don't mistake a (commented) Yaml note followed by a colon with a Yaml key.
* Considered the single quote in CSS values.
* Highlight JavaScript's hash-bang (don't mistake it with a regex).
* Updated the code for Qt 5.15.
Changelog picked from https://github.com/tsujan/FeatherPad/releases:
V0.14.0
This release is mostly about speeding up syntax highlighting, especially for
big documents. In some cases (e.g., with HTML, XML, CSS, Bash or Perl),
the job is done multiple times faster.
Also:
- A bug is fixed in handling relative file paths that contain no slash.
- JavaScript template literals (back quotes) are supported.
- CSS syntax highlighting is fixed and improved.
- Small fixes.
Packaged by pin in pkgsrc-wip. (The change log below doesn't note this,
but NetBSD-specific patches from pin were also merged in 0.13.0.)
V0.13.0
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* Allow dash and some other characters (-,;!@*') in URL schemes.
* Support syntax color customization, with two separate settings for light and dark color schemes.
* Also added an option for the whitespace color value.
* Never use processEvents(); it makes single-instance apps prone to crash in rare cases.
* Consider the HTML ampersand valid in "&name;", "&number;" and "&hexadecimal;".
* Yet smarter Shift+Enter with alphabetical lists.
* Bypass medium focus stealing prevention.
* Fixed a problem in highlighting of multiline comments (with languages that have regex).
* Fixed highlighting of Markdown code blocks without language.
* Remember cursor's horizontal pixel position before Backspace/Enter and restore it after Down/Up. This feature was removed with Backspace due
to a regression in Qt 5.14.1.
* Found and fixed a potential issue in translations (thanks to Masamichi Ito — ito32bit at GitHub).
* Don't read custom shortcuts and syntax colors from global config files because the user should be able to restore their default values.
V0.12.1
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* Removed "changelog" and "gtkrc" from the language menu (like "srt") while keeping their syntax highlighting.
* Allow searching in the language menu by typing continuously.
* More informative message when a non-text file isn't opened because of preferences.
* Fixed disabled sort line actions in context menu.
* Fixed a case of escaped quote/brace/bracket in YAML.
* Reformat the visible text rectangle on toggling line wrapping.
* Considered the new behavior of horizontal wheel scrolling in Qt 5.14.0.
* Added a workaround for the bug in horizontal scrollbars of Qt 5.14.0.
FeatherPad is a lightweight Qt5 plain-text editor.
It is independent of any desktop environment and has:
* Drag-and-drop support, including tab detachment and attachment;
* X11 virtual desktop awareness;
* An optionally permanent search-bar;
* Instant highlighting of found matches when searching;
* A docked window for text replacement;
* Support for line numbers and jumping to a specific line;
* Automatic detection of text encoding;
* Syntax highlighting for common programming languages;
* Ability to open URLs with appropriate applications;
* Session management;
* Side-pane mode;
* Auto-saving;
* Spell checking with Hunspell;
* Printing;
* Text zooming;
* Haiku OS and macOS support.
Packaged in pkgsrc-wip by pin, as part of a broader effort toward
providing all of LXQt and associated utility applications. General
reviews, feedback, and testing of such by gdt@, ng0@, and myself.
